Thrive, Life is your Opportunity!
Today we went to the National Gallery of Iceland Museum. It was a 2 for 1 deal from yesterday's admission to the House of Collections Museum. Once again, a very impressive Museum. Airy white space, clinically clean. I could be happy sitting in the main exhibit hallwith no artwork. For me, it feels …
[Read more...] about Another Day, Another Museum (or two): Is 50% good when it comes to museums?
Pictures, for those of you who have requested. Very nice, one caveat, it is a shared space with a wonderful hostess Eyglo who is a similar age to us. She is respectful, gives us a lot of space, and hopefully we are respectful also. It is a second floor walk up so we have minimal stairs. …
Out for a stroll along the beach, the soft light entices me to take a few photos. Photos are taken at about 11pm. Sunset in about 15 minutes, then sunrise at 3:50am. Darkness is another topic. I have gotten up between 1 and 2 and, to me, it just doesn't look too dark. Temperature at 11pm …
[Read more...] about The Land of the Midnite Sun – Not Quite
One item that Iceland is well known for is their hot spring pools, some outside, some inside. We went to a public bathhouse this morning. It had 6 outdoor pools and 3 indoor pools ranging in temperature from 14 degrees (circulating to keep it from freezing) Fahrenheit to 107. The pools are heated …
From the time we stepped off the plane in Iceland I was struck by a sense of calm clean space. No cramped walking spaces. The restroom was a gleaming well lit space that felt as though it was a room prepared for performing surgery. Yesterday on a 15 minute walk from our apartment to the old downtown …
